Beijing has fully militarised its manmade South China Sea islands and will add new military bases in Africa and Pakistan, US report says

Beijing’s man-made islands in the South China Sea are now bristling with military hardware as the country seeks to build more bases overseas, a US report says.

The base on the hotly-contested Spratly Islands has been outfitted with 24 fighter-sized hangars, runways, water and fuel storage, a large port, communications equipment, fixed-weapon positions and a barracks.

Three squadrons of warplanes will eventually be stationed at the bases, analysts with the Department of Defense believe, allowing Chinese warplanes to operate over the entire region.
Meanwhile construction has already started on another base in Djibouti, a small nation on the east coast of Africa with easy access to the Arabian Peninsula.